God's Favorite Customer

7digitalWhat we said:A strict Evangelical Christian background is part of what makes Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty. He makes simple, warm pop informed by late teen years listening to Bob Dylan at his most Christian, all topped with sweet observation and caustic irony. Tillman’s fourth album under this moniker feels a logical next step from its two immediate predecessors: I Love You, Honeybear was breathtakingly comic and loved-up, capturing Tillman meeting his wife, while Grammy-winning Pure Comedy was smug and gloriously over the top. Now on God’s Favourite Customer, for all the wry title might suggest otherwise, we find him more honest, desperate, and vulnerable than ever, scrambling to save his relationship. Soaring, heartbreaking and beautifully earnest, Father John Misty proves he’s far more than just another irony bro.